Verona

Directed by Marcelo Caetano

Ten years after the end of the dance music duo Verona, Elias come back to Brazil to meet his former partner, Walter, who is going to marry the young and talented Filipe. Walter lives in a countryside house, where he celebrates the end of his youth and the beginning of a new moment in his life.

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Verona uses Shakespearean expectation as a backdrop rather than a blueprint. Marcelo Caetano’s gay short film moves through desire and performance with a strong sense of youthful physicality, letting theatre blur into real attraction. The film is slight, but the way bodies, rehearsal and fantasy overlap gives it more texture than a straightforward backstage romance.